Pyromancer wrote:
Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as Tony
Polson gently breathed:

Presumably you would like the little-used rural lines that used to
radiate from Aylesbury to be kept open with large government subsidy,
rather than spending the money on services that people actually want
to use, in very large numbers.

I don't know the area, but given that the govt seems hell-bent on
converting the entire SouthEast into one vast sea of Barrat box
houses, I suspect those same "little used rural lines" will indeed be
needed before much longer, except they'll no longer be rural, and be
running at inner-city-metro type frequencies in a desperate attempt
to stave off the inevitable gridlock.

Just why does gov.uk seem so utterly convinced that the entire
population of England, bar a few west-country hoteliers and the landed
gentry, should live within 50 miles of Central London?


Because it has long been the case that people running businesses and other
organisation think they have to be near the seat of government which in turn
drags in other businesses and so it goes on. It's nothing new and if one
casts one's mind back governments spent large sums of money persuading
businesses to move out of London.